{"id":26400,"date":"2025-08-19T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.365chess.com\/view\/?post_type=product&#038;p=26400"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:33:15","slug":"the-role-of-pieces-with-im-boroljub-zlatanovic","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.365chess.com\/view\/shop\/the-role-of-pieces-with-im-boroljub-zlatanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Pieces with IM Boroljub Zlatanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"The Role of Pieces with IM Boroljub Zlatanovic\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1108467491?h=9d2ed54a76&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Master the True Power of Your Pieces \u2013 Positional Chess Made Simple<\/h2>\n<p>To become a piece whisperer.<\/p>\n<p>The chess pieces are not really inanimate objects\u2014they are alive, beaming with desire, to become the best version of themselves. They love action, and when in a battle, they want to know what their role is.<\/p>\n<p>And you, my friend, are the invisible wizard who whispers to them what to do next. Fail to do so, and they will end up confused, scattered and getting captured soon.<\/p>\n<p>In chess, the one with a stronger connection with his pieces wins. How would you know how to guide your pieces if you are clueless yourself, though?<\/p>\n<p>To solve this, we bring to you IM Boroljub Zlatanovic\u2019s latest offering The Role of Pieces where he goes deep into the worth of chess pieces, how they change based on your moves and what you can do to maximize their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>In this 10-hour video training, Zlatanovic takes one of the most difficult topics in chess and makes it accessible for &lt;2000 rated players in a beginner-friendly language.<\/p>\n<p>Once you are done with this, you will 2x your positional chess skills for sure!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1108156266?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Here\u2019s what you would learn:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Opponent lost sense of time<\/strong>. When your opponent offers you tempi, you take it. Especially in the opening phase! Your opponent will lag and you make him suffer sooner or later. Like Kasparov as White did with his simple d5 move against Ulf Andersson in 1981 Interpolis match.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only the best in the army<\/strong>. When you go into a battle, take only the best soldiers with you. You don\u2019t want a \u201cweak link\u201d in your camp. How to ensure that? Strategic piece exchanges! Like Capablanca held on to his knight and sacrificed his bishop in this game inside Chapter 9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your pieces need to breathe<\/strong>. Too many lower rated players end up stifling the life out of your pieces. Nope, not you. You know better. You know how to take one step backward and accept material losses for long term positional gains. (Looks like a bad move but with double exclamation marks!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key squares change<\/strong>. Zlatanovic shows from his own game how the key squares change throughout the game\u2014and you should be the one who gets control of them first. From one side of the board to the other, it\u2019s a fight for control, and watch how Zlatanovic does it in an actual game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rook vs minor piece<\/strong>. If you were to choose one, which will you go for? Rook, right? Zlatanovic tells you to consider the relative power of the minor piece to that of the rook instead. Like, in this 1974 URS match, how Timoschenko (B) had a whole rook that was rendered useless anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is this a course on positional chess?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but it zooms in on a very subtle topic that is often neglected in most other courses, or at least not deeply studied like in this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.365chess.com\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Chapter-3.-Development.-Stahlberg-Taimanov-low.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Chapter 1. Development. Kasparov \u2013 Andersson<br \/>\nChapter 2. Development. Estrin \u2013 Nisman<br \/>\nChapter 3. Development. Stahlberg \u2013 Taimanov<br \/>\nChapter 4. Good and bad pieces. Zlatanovic \u2013 Djuricic<br \/>\nChapter 5. Good and bad pieces. Karpov \u2013 Ribli<br \/>\nChapter 6. Good and bad pieces. Zlatanovic \u2013 Satya Sekhar<br \/>\nChapter 7. Good and bad pieces. Zlatanovic \u2013 Smuelli<br \/>\nChapter 8. Good and bad pieces. Fuster \u2013 Pogats<br \/>\nChapter 9. Good and bad pieces. Yates \u2013 Capablanca<br \/>\nChapter 10. Good and bad pieces. Saemisch \u2013 Nimzowitsch<br \/>\nChapter 11. Harmony. Alekhine \u2013 Wolf<br \/>\nChapter 12. Harmony. Capablanca \u2013 Yates<br \/>\nChapter 13. Harmony. Geller \u2013 Lerner<br \/>\nChapter 14. Harmony. Nimzowitsch \u2013 Rubinstein<br \/>\nChapter 15. Harmony. Zlatanovic \u2013 Pavlovic<br \/>\nChapter 16. Harmony. Nikolic \u2013 Van Wely<br \/>\nChapter 17. Key squares. Zlatanovic \u2013 Brankovic<br \/>\nChapter 18. Key squares. Mickovic \u2013 Zlatanovic<br \/>\nChapter 19. Key squares. Pogonina \u2013 Bodnaruk<br \/>\nChapter 20. Key squares. Minasian \u2013 Kharlov<br \/>\nChapter 21. Key squares. Sahil \u2013 Zlatanovic<br \/>\nChapter 22. Relative value. Karpov \u2013 Hjartarson<br \/>\nChapter 23. Relative value. Bojovic- Zlatanovic<br \/>\nChapter 24. Relative value. Ubilava \u2013 Timoscenko<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p><strong>IM Boroljub Zlatanovic [2438 FIDE]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boroljub Zlatanovic is an International Master and a professional chess coach from Serbia. Boroljub has been coaching chess for over 15 years and his students showed outstanding results in the Youth and Junior Championships. Whether you want to improve your endgame (basic, typical, complex), middlegame (global strategy, tactics, and typical positions) or to expand and deepen the opening repertoire, you are at the right place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 10-hour video training, Zlatanovic takes one of the most difficult topics in chess and makes it accessible for &lt;2000 rated players in a beginner-friendly language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Role of Pieces with IM Boroljub Zlatanovic - 365Chess<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this 10-hour video training, Zlatanovic takes one of the most difficult topics in chess and makes it accessible for &lt;2000 rated players in a beginner-friendly language.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.365chess.com\/view\/shop\/the-role-of-pieces-with-im-boroljub-zlatanovic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Role of Pieces with IM Boroljub Zlatanovic - 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